Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

Leaked builds of Microsoft's Windows 8 are providing more clues as to what kinds of user behaviors will and won't be permitted. Skipping Metro is right out. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the ...

Microsoft has blocked a popular work-around that let users boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop, a co-author of an upcoming book on the operating system confirmed today. “Microsoft made some changes ...

Windows 8 may not offer the option to boot a computer directly to the familiar desktop interface. Users running the final code of Windows 8 RTM have reported that the operating system must first boot ...

Ahead of Windows 8.1's public preview release on June 26, we now know exactly how the resurrected Start button and menu will work. While it's still bad news for those of you who were hoping for the ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 update will reportedly allow users to boot straight to their desktops. The Verge quotes inside sources claiming that the operating system upgrade will enable users to drop the ...

Is this the last time I can use this image? Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) plans boot-to-desktop as default, mutter deep-throats. It’s said that Windows 8.1 Update 1 will skip the Metro (aka Modern) Start ...